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Buying Sex

Director - Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason
Run Time - 75 minutes
Language - English
Format - DVD / Digital Streaming
Year - 2013
Genre - Documentary
Educational Interests - Human Rights, Human Trafficking,Labor Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Psychology, Sex & Sexuality, Urban Studies, Women’s Studies

Institutional DVD Price: $195

Buying Sex is a timely examination of the ongoing and global debate about prostitution laws. Would decriminalizing prostitution free sex workers to take more control over their activities, run legal brothels and manage their own business without fear  of punishment?  Or would it give the buyers of sex (as well as illicit sex-trade business owners) even more power and opportunity to benefit from and possibly exploit the sale of sexual services? This revealing film allows both sides to make their case.

Filmed in Sweden, New Zealand and Canada, Buying Sex introduces sex-consumers ("johns"), sex workers, and policy-makers who, with eye-opening clarity, challenge our pre-conceptions.

Featuring Trisha Baptie, a woman who used to work the streets of Vancouver's downtown and now is an abolitionist and journalist; Janine Benedet, the lawyer for the intervener Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution; Valerie Scott, sex worker and advocate who entered the trade when she was 16 years old, Angel Wolfe, daughter of Brenda Anne Wolfe, who was one of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton, and many others.

"Lets the women speak for themselves." - Torontoist

"Buying Sex brilliantly zeroes in on two radically different visions at the heart of these debates through the stories of those who have most at stake: the buyers and sellers of sex." - HotDocs

"A truly masterfully crafted documentary…superbly executed." - Myetvmedia.com

"! Guaranteed no two people will walk out agreeing on the issue." - Toronto NOW Magazine